laments

英 [ləˈments]

美 [ləˈments]

v.  对…感到悲痛; 痛惜; 对…表示失望
n.  挽歌; 哀诗; 悼词
lament的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 为…悲痛；哀叹；痛惜
  If youlamentsomething, you express your sadness, regret, or disappointment about it.
  1. Ken began to lament the death of his only son...
     肯开始对独子的死悲痛不已。
  2. He laments that people in Villa El Salvador are suspicious of the police...
     他哀叹埃尔萨尔瓦多镇的居民居然不信任警方。
  3. 'Prices are down 40 per cent since Christmas,' he lamented.
     “圣诞节以来物价降了4成，”他悲叹道。
• N-COUNT 悲痛之情；哀叹；痛惜
  Someone'slamentis an expression of their sadness, regret, or disappointment about something.
  1. She spoke of the professional woman's lament that a woman's judgment is questioned more than a man's.
     她谈到职业女性的悲哀：与男性相比，她们的判断力更易遭人质疑。
• N-COUNT 悼词；挽歌
  Alamentis a poem, song, or piece of music which expresses sorrow that someone has died.
  1. A singer on the country music station was singing a lament for the late, great Buddy Holly.
     乡村音乐电台中，一位歌手正演唱歌曲哀悼已故的伟大音乐人巴迪·霍利。

双语例句

• While he laments the deaths of American soldiers, he barely mentions the suffering of Iraqi citizens.
  虽然他对死去的美军士兵表达了哀悼，却对伊拉克民众的苦难鲜有提及。
• Gary Moore, the co-founder, laments that retail sales have been slow.
  联合创始人GaryMoore悲叹最近零售销售额不佳。
• Instead he laments that contemporary politicians have very little sense of history.
  他还哀叹现代的政治家们太缺少历史感。
• Besides, as a senior UN official laments, the Iraq fiasco has "poisoned this well".
  另外作为联合国官方的一大痛楚，伊拉克的惨败已经“严重毒化了这一概念”。
• He laments at the state of SOA initiatives in the enterprise.
  他哀叹企业SOA项目的状况。
• 'I don't know why I was born or what I am,'he laments at one point, and you can relate, since the movie doesn't know what to do with him.
  他在片中哀叹：“我不知道我为何而生，我不知道我是谁。”你对他的话会深有同感，因为影片根本不知道该拿这个人物怎么办。
• You realize that hip-hop is urban folk art, and as much an indication of the conditions in impoverished areas as bluesman Robert Johnson's laments in the1930s.
  你会意识到，嘻哈乐是一种都市民间艺术，它像上个世纪30年代的布鲁斯歌手罗伯特•约翰逊演唱的哀歌一样，对贫困地区的环境和条件具有强烈的暗示作用。
• Arthritis and declining vision may simply be a facet of getting older, she laments.
  她悲哀地说，关节炎和视力减退可能只是我们逐渐变老的一个方面而已。
• In this book he laments the slight interest shown in his writings.
  在该书中他慨叹人们对他的著作兴趣微弱。
• We heard her laments at midnight.
  我们在半夜里听到她恸哭。